And they of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and Gentiles, shall see their corpses [a]three days and an half, and shall not suffer their carcasses to be put in graves.

10 And they that dwell upon the earth, [b]shall rejoice over them and be glad, and shall send gifts one to another, for these two Prophets [c]vexed them that dwelt on the earth.

11 [d]But after [e]three days and an half, [f]the spirit of life coming from God, shall enter into them, and they [g]shall stand up upon their feet: and great fear shall come upon them which saw them.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:9 That is, for three years and a half for so many years Boniface lived after his Jubilee as Bergomensis witnesseth.
  2. Revelation 11:10 So much the more shall they by this occasion exercise the jollity of their Jubilee.
  3. Revelation 11:10 The gospel of Christ, in the affliction of the world, and the ministry thereof, the savor of death unto death to those that perish, 2 Cor. 2:16.
  4. Revelation 11:11 The third place as noted I before, is of the rising again of the Prophets from the dead, and their carrying up into heaven. For their resurrection is showed in this verse: their calling and lifting up into heaven, in the verse following.
  5. Revelation 11:11 That is, what time God shall destroy that wicked Boniface.
  6. Revelation 11:11 That is, the Prophets of God shall in a sort rise again, not the same in person (as they say) but in spirit, that is in the power and efficacy of their ministry, which S. John expressed before verses 5 and 6. And so the prophecy that is spoken of Elijah, is interpreted by the Angel to be understood of John the Baptist, Luke 1:17. For the same Boniface himself, who sought to kill and destroy them, was by the fire of God’s mouth (which the holy ministry showeth and exhibiteth) devoured and died miserably in prison, by the endeavor of Satra Columensis, and Nogaretus a french knight, whom Philip the fair King of France sent into Italy but with a small power.
  7. Revelation 11:11 That is, the most grievous heat of afflictions and persecution shall stay for a while, for the great amaze that shall arise upon that sudden and unlooked for judgment of God.

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